Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-16
The Pope and DR.. McGlynn.

The letter from the head of the Cath
Ollie Church to Archbishop Corrigan, of
New York, defining the attitude of the
Church toward Rev. DIR. McGlynn nd
those who teach his doctrines, will be
read with interest not only by all who
confess allegiance to the Church of
Rome, but by intelligent citizens i'm a
land where political and social distinc-
ton and fortune are open to all, and
where the rights of every condition are
respected with equal sancity. There
has been commendabIe patience and
fOrbearance on the part of the Church
that accepted the holy vows of DIR. Nc
Glynn and conferred upou him its holy
orders; but the bold utterances of the
suspended priest against fundamental
principles which are integral parts of
every religion of the old or new Bible.
leave the Church no choice but to de-
pose the teacher of anarchy.
There is no civil law against DIR. Nc
Glynn taking to the hustings and
teaching that the property acquired by
industry and Thrift should be stolen to
divide with the idler thief There are
many who so teach alike by precept
and practice. The murderous ALarch-
lists of Chicago, who are now awaiting
execution, taught just as DIR. McGlynn
teaches, only they. followed their own
teaching to it's logical result. The
burglar and the highwayman and the
swinder and the embezzler and the
sneak-thief, in or out of prison, or in or
out of Canada. teach by practice Just
what DR.. McGlynn teaches by fine
spun theory. He furnishes the text;
they furnish the illustrations, and he
will not rise to the full measure of his
mission until he ADVISES murder, bur-
glary, highway robbery, embezzle-
ment, swildling and sneak thieving as
the chief accomplishments of civiliza-
ton until verybody is robbed of all
they possess.
DIR. McGlynn could go from State to
State and from city TO city in this coun-
try and teach his doctrines, but when
he assumes to wear the insignia of holy
orders and to speak as the oracle of
Church whose great social beneficence
is in the integrity of its honest posses
sions, he libels not only his own relig-
ion, but every religion of the world,
Pagan as well as Christian. The church
to which he processes allegiance, is the
largest prOperty-owner of any religious
body of the earth. It's vast systems of
schools, converts, missions, charities,
churches, etc, withits imposing tenn
to the modern cities of the new world
attest the charitable use honestly &C
quired and wisely employed property;
and when the ordained Priest of that
Church assails the right of property,
he simply invites the Idler to part the
patrimOny of his own church, includ-
ing its own affairs.
The distinctly expressed adherence
of DR.. McGlynn's vagaries by the head
of the Church of Rome, Is a timely adj
monitiOn to every citizen of every faith
1t is the same deliversnce that would
come from the Presbyterian Assembly,
the Hebrew Synagogue, the Methodist
Conference, the Episcopal Convention,
the Lutheran Synod, Or form the SUI
preme tribunal of every religious body
of every civilization; and when such
deliverance is necessitated by a con-
tumacious Priest, whose teachings dis
pute both Bible and Church, it is even
more due to the Church than to civil
iZation that is the offspring of religion,
that a heresy definable only by the
term robbery, should be separated by
distinct line from every religions SYM
patty or effort. Such teachers are the
cruelest foes of the poor and property
less, for they teach them only the way
| to immediate poverty and desOlation.
They are harmless to those whose in
dustry and frugality have acquired
property, but they mislead the poor.
rob them of the little they possess to
pay the price of deceit, and unfit them
for the manly battle of life in which
success is open to all. No religious, no
political and no social organization can
tolerate such knaves or fools as leaders.
and the sooner the lesson is impressed
upon all, the sooner will anarchy be
| without d vocation in the noblest gov
eminent of the world.-~Phitadetphia
Times.